My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.

A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.

Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you?

One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable.

You could write all the IDEAS of all the movies, my own included, on the head of a pin.

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

Crooks aren't the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.